Sentence examples for strives against from inspiring English sources

That glumness sits awkwardly in "Tomorrowland," which strives against the fad for dystopian sagas — "The Hunger Games," "Divergent," and so forth — and bravely asks, Where did all the utopias go?

"The only truth is music," declared Jack Kerouac, and it's a passionate love of music that drives the narrator of Iranian-American musician Ali Eskandarian's powerful, posthumous semi-autobiographical novel, as he strives against the odds to maintain artistic integrity.

The result of this fragmentation, given the nature of Will, is terrible: it is a world of constant struggle, where each individual thing strives against every other individual thing; the result is a permanent "war of all against all" akin to what Thomas Hobbes (1588 1679) characterized as the state of nature.

Bodily movement strives against oppression and ultimately heals the soul.

"Ecumenical" was one of her favorite words; she strived against tribalism.

Yet these doctors have striven against all odds to protect the health of their patients.

People who function well strive against odds because they hold on to hope".

Why do we wish — strain, strive, against the grain of reality — to be autonomous individuals, and see ourselves as such?

A Cardiff council committee has today sealed the fate of a local playing field striving against development.

Taduno faces a stark choice: to sing in praise of the regime or to continue striving "against injustice and oppression".

He was a friend to all who strove against want and injustice, an inveterate enemy of exploitation and greed.